"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around." - On Writing by Stephen King (100).

I have a collab fanfic account with MaydayParade8123. The penname is A Parade of Stars, and we will be posting on there; as in, we just posted something there yesterday ;).

Hey, I'm Jam or Jamie (alias), and I love references to the Hunger Games.

I write stories, and I'm a Beta-Reader - Woo.

For more info on update times, to ask me questions, maybe previews, and whatnot: My PJO/Fanfic Tumblr [heroluke . tumblr . com]

BETA INFO: Yeah, sorry, I'm not free enough anymore :/

Well, I'm out. Jam.

26 RAK.

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“He’s like a cozy sweater that fits everyone.” - MaydayParade8123 on Percy

Hello, it's me.

1.22.16

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"Gould said something else that was interesting on the day I turned in my first two pieces: write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right--as right as you can, anyway--it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky (this is my idea, not John Gould's, but I believe he would have subscribed to the notion), more will want to do the former than the latter." - On Writing by Stephen King (57).

MY STORIES, PERCY JACKSON SERIES

Chase's Pain
(My first one ever: I tend to hate it, at times.) IMPORTANT: I realize you won't like this, but I have officially put this story on hiatus. I know so many of you love it, and I love you guys for that. At the moment though, I don't feel any love for this story. The character plotting is much too cliche, and honestly, Only Thirty Days feels like a better spinoff of the story; originally, I had no intention for OTD to turn out being like that. However, things happen when writing. So for now, I'll leave the story up, but I hope you all understand why I am choosing to keep it on hiatus. Maybe, eventually, I'll come back to it, but the problem is that I don't love the story. And if I don't love the story, the story won't love me--hence the ridiculous amount of writer's block that I now hold for the story.

Only Thirty Days
(My second one, which I happen to be in love with again as of 12.26.12)
Annabeth's New Year's Eve Dress

Cupid's Amor: For the Love or Money
(Ugh, my third one, which is prewritten. I wrote it because I had writer's block hence the eh-ness.)
- The guys: Ethan. Will. Percy. Xander.

MY ONE SHOTS, PERCY JACKSON SERIES

A is for Ample
(My first one shot, ever, which won the contest that I wrote it for... Tied for my favorite one shot that I have written.)
Word Count: 6,400, up

B is for Broken
(My second one shot, ever, which I revised/added a bit to...)
Word Count: 5,900, up

C is for Care
(My third one shot, ever, which I revised.)
Word Count: 4,800, up

The Christmas Wish List
(Fourth one shot I wrote, first holiday Percabeth one shot. Lolol, it's tied for my favorite one shot with Ample.)
Word Count: 19,500, up

Hanging by a Moment
(Fifth one shot and first one shot of 2013.)
Word Count: 8,600, up

RANDOM STORIES IDEAS, PERCY JACKSON SERIES (That I may or may not ever write.)

There's No Better Place

- Annabeth and Percy, complete opposites, meet, having to bond over the problems of their family, life, and school. And, the only way out is to be completely open to their problems and realize the changes they need to make.

Awake My Soul

- Annabeth had never been more than a nose in a book, but Percy Jackson had other plans for the so-called nerd.

Story at Camp Half Blood, No Demigods.

- Annabeth and Percy are sent to a camp for kids whose parents are either rich, famous, or both. Their parents think them to be "spoiled brats," needing to be sent to that camp so that they can become well-natured. But, sometimes two kids simply are not the spoiled brats that their parents make them out to be.

Don't Come Easy/To Build a Home/California Sky

- I would give a summary, but I'm fairly certain I'll wind up writing this story. So, you're going to have to wait and see ;)

"'Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
- 'A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.'"
- Morrie Schwartz from Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (40).

Quality is better than Quantity.
Motto: One will be remembered for what one does for others; not for self.

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb.

Eat bitter, taste sweet.

26 RAK. - 26 Random Acts of Kindness

My goal(s):

Write, write, write.

Read, read, read.

Have fun.

Enter any contests that I find and see fit to enter.

Stop procrastinating.

"'You see,' he says to the girl, 'you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you are in the dark. Even when you are falling.'"
- Morrie Schwartz from Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (61).

STORIES I AM IN SEARCH OF:

1. Percy saves Annabeth from living somewhere else, I think, and then Annabeth and Percy have to play being in a relationship because of something that had happened with Rachel and Percy, I believe. Anyways, I remember a specific chapter where Percy was "marking his territory," on Annabeth, because he wanted everyone to know, at a dinner party, that Annabeth was his. In other words, Percy gave Annabeth a hickey. In this story, Percy sometimes acts like a jerk.
For some reason, I want to say this story has something to do with a substitute girlfriend, or engagement, but I cannot be sure. Also, Annabeth is living with Percy.

2. Annabeth and Percy had been married and had a child together. I think Annabeth was famous? Anyways, they were pretty close to getting a divorce, but they some how worked through their problems to get back together and come together. I remember one scene where paparazzi show up at I believe Percy's house. Anyways, I think Annabeth was either a singer or an actress, but she was certainly famous. They get back together at the end.
It's already completed, and it has no basis at all as them being teens. The story begins with them breaking up/having been broken up. I think their child together was a daughter. Their daughter's 17 maybe?

Wow, think you can help me out?

"Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.
You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out."
- The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

CONTESTS I'VE ENTERED: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... NUMBER ENTERED: 1

TheGoddessofPencils' Contest - won
Entry = A is for Ample

If you know any good contests to enter, let me know. (PM me, tell me in a review, whatever you'd like.)

Tuesdays with Morrie.
"Love wins. Love always wins."